Purple Butter London Scoundrel

I can’t believe we are half-way through the July Nail Art Challenge! It’s a lot of work to consistently put out original nail art designs every day- but so worth it, right? Day 15 is all about HEARTS and I have a cute purple design for you today!

I started with two coats of Butter London Scoundrel which is a nice dusky purple. A few of my nails I topped with two coats of an OPI glitter called Lights of Emerald City. Since that OPI glitter is white I decided to make some white hearts on my other nails to pull the design together. FOR THE HEARTS: I started with my Sally Hansen Nail Art Pen in black. I am loving this pen and just ordered two silver ones (do I see a giveaway in Crafty’s future? Yes, yes I do!) I drew the hearts on with the black pen and then dotted inside the hearts with NYC white nail polish. Since I used my skinniest/smallest dotting tool it was easy to position the white inside the black heart shapes. I like the way that they have a nice black outline around them now.

Do any of you guys have a white textured polish, like maybe OPI Solitaire? If you use that to fill in the black heart outline then I bet they’d look like cute little PUFFY HEARTS! Wish I had a white textured polish like that!

Do you use nail art pens? They’re handy to have! Mine is from Sally Hansen but I wonder how the other brands work….

You can view the other heart designs here:

15. Hearts :

I don’t know about you but I’ve been having a blast doing the Oh Mon Dieu Challenge! I’m so happy to see so many fresh designs each day and that they span across different platforms like wordpress, blogger, IG and FB! It’s so fun doing this challenge with all you girls! Just had to say that!

Moving on to the theme for day 11- STRIPES. I’ve never really done a straight up striped mani before so I went with a simple design. I started with 2 coats of mint green polish and then painted on some beige and purple stripes using the bottle brushes right from the nail polish bottles. Then I made some thin stripes using gold nail polish and a skinny striper brush. This mani was relatively quick to put together. And I like the soft vintage neutral tones… it’s almost like a palette cleanser since I’ve been using a lot of crazy bright colors during the challenge! Here’s the polishes I used….

Mint Green ♥ Orly Jealous, Much?

Purple ♥ Butter London Scoundrel

Neutral Beige ♥ Butter London Yummy Mummy

Gold ♥ Sally Hansen Golden-I